whirlybird

1 This generates additional lift that slows the whirlybird even as it drops.

2 If he is bulky, dressed in black and waving his arms like a whirlybird at the 2008 Conservative Political Action Conference, chances are that he will be ridiculed in the accompanying text.

3 Instead, he waited until the glow of the whirlybird receded into the dark and the last of the kids got swallowed up in the shadows.

4 He points it at the whirlybird and clicks.

5 I throttled back and landed the whirlybird on the beach.

6 Steadied by the regular whirl of its great blades and driven by tiny rocket jets in the tip of each wing, the whirlybird swung down like a huge mosquito hovering over a swamp patch.

7 The whirlybird floated past and Bo imagined himself springing at it, seizing one of its trailing limbs, smashing it against the floor, and stomping until it cracked open.

8 In New York City, helicopters giving tourists a whirlybird’s eye view of landmarks account for the majority of take offs.

9 After four months in the warehouse, four months of plodding slowly behind the whirlybirds because anything quicker than a walk agitated them, Bo felt slow.

10 Some evenings, whirlybirds of unknown origin seem to descend en masse.

11 He showed Jack his own “whirlybird” pitch in which the club is picked up abruptly at the start of the swing and then dropped on an inside path coming through.

12 A familiar whine filled the air, then a whirlybird emerged from the corridor.

13 Unlike a real helicopter, the whirlybird does not have a motor to make its blades spin.

14 It took nearly an hour for the high-speed whirlybird to make it to Washington.

15 Mars’ atmosphere is thin, so the extraterrestrial whirlybird needed some special modifications to achieve lift.

16 The sleek, dark-green whirlybird, with its luxe leather interior, sat in front of Airbus’s static display at the National Business Aviation Association’s BACE conference in Orlando.

17 The sugary whirlybird also features rotor blades and windows made from white chocolate.

18 The first team to make real progress was a group of students from California Polytechnic State University, whose "Da Vinci III" whirlybird flew for about eight seconds in December 1989.

19 But the choreographer also has a talent for making the undanceable ingeniously danceable, as he once did with the loudly amplified sounds of four whirlybirds in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet.

20 Do you think adding paper clips as weights to the whirlybird will make it fall faster?

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